About Me
As a reporter, columnist, and/or freelance writer, I've written about everything from the origin of the Reuben sandwich to a rural urban legend about Ringo Starr's tonsils. I'm currently working on a batch of essays about growing up in Carthage, Illinois, population 2,800 and best known for being where a bunch of angry rednecks happened to have murdered a certain so-called latter-day prophet.